Experience

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  Sedgwick

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1998

  • MVS Operations Analyst

    Jan 1987 - Jan 1998

  • Data Controller

    Jan 1984 - Jan 1987
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  Data sciences

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Mvs / unix operations support analyst
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  Ford motor company

  May 1998 - Aug 2000

  Unix systems administrator
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  Dresdner kleinwort

  Sept 2000 - Mar 2001

  Unix systems administrator

  I was part of the DKB unix team based in London. Principle focus on initial implementation of Veritas Cluster into the bank.

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  Egg

  Mar 2001 - Aug 2001

  Unix systems administrator

  A short term position to "clean up" the environment and implement some best practice

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  J.p. morgan cazenove

  Aug 2001 - Jul 2011

  Running UNIX,Intel,DBA & Desktop teams during Cazenove systems migration to JPMorgan systems. Incl. data and application migrations, decommission planning as well as continued BAU support of active environment.Employment ending March 31st 2011 following successful completion of migration project. Now leading the team. Same technical responsibilities as below. Investigating VMWare,RHEL Brought into the team as part of the insourcing from IBM. Part of the team that delivered a complete new infrastructure into a new data centre whilst maintaining the existing systems. EMC,NetBackup,VCS,Market Data,Tivoli Workload Scheduler (maestro), Fidessa,WebsphereMQ,WebsphereTX,Scripting,C,PAM,auditing Provided UNIX consultancy to IBM for their outsourcing contract with Cazenove

  • Platform Engineering Team Leader

    Jun 2010 - Jul 2011

  • UNIX Engineering Team Leader

    Dec 2007 - Jun 2010

  • Senior UNIX Engineer

    Mar 2003 - Dec 2007

  • UNIX Engineer

    Aug 2001 - Mar 2003
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  Standard bank

  Jul 2011 - now

  Unix systems manager

  Running UNIX team at Standard Bank

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  Icbc standard bank plc

  Mar 2017 - now

  After a stint in the Engineering department doing Ansible automation, RHEL builds, projects, Data Centre migrations, Storage migrations I'm back managing the UNIX team and estate. Technical Lead for Linux and UNIX in Global Production Services Infrastructure Engineering Dept. Defining standards for builds, product lifecycles, automation and projects. Data Centre, Storage and Network migrations, Platform regeneration and Automation.

  • UNIX Systems Manager

    Aug 2021 - now

  • Senior Systems Engineer

    Mar 2017 - now